Quotes About Genius

You must remember that Endora is basically a good witch. She really doesn't have a wicked bone in her magic finger. It's just that she hain't the patience to endure human follies and foibles. If you're human you're a slave. That's the way she sees it. She's a genius and she demands that quality in people as well as witches and warlocks.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

There are very few things of virtuosity or genius that you can actually witness.

It's just cool to witness talent.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

'Merry Wives of Windsor' is a wonderful machine. It's one of the great farces, and it's astonishing to remember that this is written by the same man who wrote 'Hamlet,' 'The Taming of the Shrew' or 'Cymbeline.' It's so similar, and yet the form is so different.

Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.

Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.

At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.

There is only a very thin line which separates a genius from the eccentric.

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods.

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one.

Great innovators like Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie didn't rely on government. There was hardly any of it in those days. More recently, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Larry Ellison used genius to put brand-new ideas into production.

I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla.

The genius of 'Game of Thrones' is that in this rich imagining of a world redolent of the medieval, the rules of a Middle Ages morality play have been so thoroughly discarded.

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

If you're such a genius, you wouldn't believe in magic." "If you weren't such an old coot, you wouldn't need it.

It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes," [T.S. Eliot] wrote, "who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.